Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (379 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 01:18:55AM +0200, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> To make it clear. You can avoid using patches and still get the
> updates from the updates repository, patches only give the extra
> pretty information.

Uh, that's not really true. Patches not only give you some pretty
information, but they also force updates. 'zypper up' will not
bother the user with problems, it'll just not do the update.
'zypper patch' will force the installation of all patches, thus
the user has to resolve all problems.

> And for people that uses zypper to update its
> systems it's a lot more normal to run "zypper up" (equivalent of
> zypper up -t packages) than zypper up -t patch.

Maybe more normal, but your system is not secure.

Regarding the initial problem, Tumbleweed and 11.4 seem to be
unrelated in the build service right now, thus there's no
release number synchronization.
If Tumbleweed is designed to be "on top" of some other project,
it should use source links for the packages. That way, the build
service knows that the package from Tumbleweed should get a
higher release number that the one in 11.4.

*BUT*: This only makes sense if all security updates are ported
to Tumbleweed right away! Otherwise you'll just get an insecure
system.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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